The IPPR in collaboration with the International Budget Partnership (IBP) conducted the 2017 Open Budget Survey for which Namibia received a score of 50, beating the global average of 42. The survey used 109 equally weighted indicators to measure budget transparency. The indicators assessed whether government availed eight key budget documents to the public online in a timely manner and whether these documents presented budget information in a comprehensive and useful way. In terms of transparency, the survey report noted that since 2015 Namibia had increased the availability of budget information by publishing the Mid-Year Review online. There has however been a decrease in the availability of budget information because the Citizen’s Budget was not published online in a timely manner. Government also failed to produce an Audit Report and a Pre-Budget Statement. It further found that In-Year reports only contained scant budget information that lacked detailed information on critical topics such as expenditure by classification, or revenue by category or source. Namibia scored zero for public participation because government provided the public with no opportunities to engage in budget processes. The global average score was twelve. For budget oversight, the country scored 33, which was classified as weak. They found that the Legislature provided weak oversight during the budget planning and implementation stages of the budget cycle. MISA’s annual Transparency Assessment, and the IPPR’s Access Denied report, reconfirmed the lack of access to information, which should be in the public domain. 84 So This is Democracy? 2017 The Transparency Assessment assessed eight public institutions’ accessibility and responsiveness to the public’s demand for information. Of the eight institutions surveyed, only six had fully functional websites. Although all institutions had designated officials for information dissemination, the majority of institutions had a delayed response. Renowned for its high degree of media freedom and equally lauded for the explicit guarantee of media freedom and freedom of expression enshrined in Chapter 3 of the Constitution, Namibia’s downfall is the absence of a similar constitutional provision of access to information. Access Denied assessed the response of 100 public institutions, private companies, and civil society organisations to information request letters. However, only 20% of all requests were responded to.